Stacey Rippy LBA BCBA Behavioral Therapy and Training

11/20/2025

Spending the morning working on CEUs. I value accountability in my profession, which motivates me to pursue best current practices. Today's topic: Relational Frame Theory. I'll be posting a lot of my notes here to remember and to help share knowledge.

11/19/2025

I see a lot of values being lived in these 20 phrases.

Kid President believes the things we say can help make the world more awesome. Here he shares a special list of 20 things we should say more often. What woul...

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

I love grabbing inspiring quotes from children's books. They stay with me. Tell me what children's book quotes inspire you?

10/29/2025

With Steven C. Hayes – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

10/24/2025

Acceptance is one of life’s hardest skills, but also one of the most essential. It means opening up to the full range of our emotions so that love and purpose have space to grow.

In this article, I share how I’ve been practicing acceptance myself, even in the bittersweet moments of watching my youngest son grow up. And I offer some simple ways you can build this skill before life really demands it.

Read the full article here: https://stevenchayes.com/the-bittersweet-art-of-acceptance-2/

10/21/2025

Patience= the capacity to carry any and all emotion rising inside you. Then, responding in favor of the kind of parent you desire to be.

10/15/2025

Have you heard the mindfulness practice "Name it to Tame it". It's a practice of naming your emotions. It's building the skill of self awareness. As we name and identify our emotions, it places us in an observing state, which helps diffuse the emotion. In therapy this can look like creating little monsters. Meet Overwhelmed and Anxious! Something fun you can do with your kids is take clay or Play-Doh, or even just draw your emotions and give them features; hot/cold, sticky, spiky, hard, color, shape, smell, whatever! I'm going to post the video I usually show my clients in the comments. If you do create a monster show me! I'd love to see it.

10/10/2025

Writing up treatment plans, listening to some Harry Styles.